In a post, the security firm said the username and “ridiculously weak” password were harvested by information-stealing malware that had been installed on an Orange computer since September.
So the password being weak was actually irrelevant here, even if it was 32 random characters they would have pulled it off that pc.
That’s why I only use “hunter2” for mine. With the number, it’s more secure.
Nah, you need more numbers in your passwords. That’s why mine is always 123456789!
Just looks like a bunch of stars to me
40 years from now when our devices just encode encrypted keys into our brains directly to identify us, we’ll still be making this joke.
40 years from now and I will finally be hunter2. My dream.
That’s why I only use “*******” for mine. With the number, it’s more secure.
I guess it works because I can’t see the password.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a “ridiculously weak” password and used it to access an account for managing the global routing table that controls which networks deliver the company’s Internet traffic, researchers said.
The password came to light after the party, using the moniker Snow, posted an image to social media that showed the orange.es email address associated with the RIPE account.
In a post, the security firm said the username and “ridiculously weak” password were harvested by information-stealing malware that had been installed on an Orange computer since September.
Once logged into Orange’s RIPE account, Snow made changes to the global routing table the mobile operator relies on to specify what backbone providers are authorized to carry its traffic to various parts of the world.
All but one of them also originated with the Orange AS, and once again had no effect on traffic, according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.
The creation of the ROA for 149.74.0.0/16 was the first act by Snow to create problems, because the maximum prefix length was set to 16, rendering any smaller routes using the address range invalid
The original article contains 516 words, the summary contains 211 words. Saved 59%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
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This title is completely incorrect. The text of the article clearly states it’s Orange’s RIPE account, not RIPE itself.
according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.
What’s a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn’t just “networking expert” do?
